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2009 NASCAR Attendance

Another race, another poor attendance record for NASCAR. Can you believe all the empty seats at Lowe’s tonight?

Week after week we’re seeing the samething. It was reflected in IMS’s Quarterly a few weeks ago, but let’s be serious, all you have to do is watch a race and you can see the empty seats for yourself.

But there’s an important fact to note regarding the lower attendance figures and that’s the huge lose of revenue to the host cities. Tens of millions of dollars per race are at stake in consumer spending alone. Then there’s the jobs related to track operations and it’s ancillary support systems. Hundreds of millions at stake for a city with a large track and two race dates.

With unemployment still on the rise and heading to over 10%, contrary to promises by the president and liberals in Congress, we will continue to see serious revenue loss to cities with NASCAR tracks.

NASCAR continues to bury its head in the sand and acknowledge the real problem is NASCAR. High ticket, prices, boring races, boring drivers. Race start times that favor TV fans rather than spectators. Requiring fans to purchase bundles(cup and busch races). Cramped stands. Tight restrictions on cooler sizes, then not enough concession stands, or bathrooms meaning you spend half the race in line rather than watching the race. NASCARS down fall is the greed of the owners and they are too stupid to see it.

I have followed N ASCAR for years. Only recently I find myself “fast forwarding” to watch the remaining few (boring” laps. Seems as if the COT has mandated what we now see as a non-competitive sport. The “chase” is a joke but then what would the announcers have to talk about if not for this one final element.

I will continue to attend such events at my local short tracks but have had it with the non-competitve of our current NASCAR.